
A Thomistic Account of Truth | Prof. Timothy Pawl
The Thomistic Institute
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The Principle of Non Contrastition
The principle of non contradiction says that no statement or assertion can be both true and false at the same time in the same respect. So there are some statements that are true andfalse at different times, like two hours i was hungry, and now after this delicious meal i'm no longer hungry. But what if it were true at thesame time, i'm hungry and i'm not hungry? Well, maybe i think i'm not Hungry, one of you thinks i'm hungry. The eye refers to you and one and me an the other. As long as you keep all the terms mening the same thing throughout, so the eyes to dul of switch aroo between me and
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